Negative Space: e-mail
- AppleScript, Mail, and deleted messages
- OS X Mail appears to keep trashed messages in their previous folder for a while, resulting in “ghost messages” when you try to get messages from a mailbox using AppleScript.
- Custom “From” addresses in Apple Mail
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It’s remarkably easy to set up multiple addresses per account in OS X Mail, once you know the trick.
- FireShare Macintosh Electronic Mail Fileserver
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FireShare Macintosh Electronic Mail Fileserver, an AppleScript fileserver and mailing list server, now defunct.
- Peer to peer email from 1980
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A fascinating vision of the convergence of e-mail and text messaging from 1980.
- Using appscript with Apple Mail to get emails and attachments
- Python and appscript can be used to get email messages out of Apple’s OS X Mail client, and even to get and save attachments.
- Using MailShare: How to Queue Files up for AIMS
- Using MailShare, Apple Internet Mail Server, or possibly Eudora Internet Mail Server, to queue up files to go out by Applescript.
More Information
- Mail: Save Attachments
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For Ruby: “Loops through every selected email and attempts to save its attachments to a folder of your choosing. Handy for when people send you a gazillion emails with one attachment each.”
- Original Inbox Zero Articles (2006)
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“These links point to the original Inbox Zero Series that Merlin wrote for 43 Folders in 2006. They cover the skills, tools, and attitudes that can help empty your email inbox—and then keep it that way. You can visit each of the posts by clicking the title.”
